“Temple of Insanity”
Edd Sowder
© October 29, 2018
(revised-used by permission, all rights reserved).
A blackened grin
Grimacing with pain
Full of terrorized thoughts
With no dreams retained
On through the night
It searches for you
You cannot hide from it
And it’s real, it’s true
Now you are fearful
Of the life that you now lead
In your own eyes, you’ve fallen short
Welcome to the temple of insanity
You can no longer see past
Your own clouded mind
Ever since you set foot within
It’s everything that you’d hoped never to find
It required a soul
Succumbing to the pain as you groan
It scrapes off your identity
But that was never your own
This is not how
It was supposed to be
You just lost yourself while residing
Within the temple of insanity
Carried away from what you know
Salvation is a fallacy, a misconception
You can’t believe in anymore
Someone else stares back in the reflection
Your dreams all failures, deep within
Pills, self-mutilation, your soul is torn
You hate to breathe, so why go on?
You feel it growing as time wears on.
The walls that you built were upon eroded soil
They’ve now come crashing all around your feet
But, it doesn’t seem to matter anymore
You’ve found your solace, within the temple of insanity.
